Cement Definition
sĭ-mĕnt
cemented, cementing, cements
noun
cements
A powdered substance made of burned lime and clay, mixed with water and sand to make mortar or with water, sand, and gravel to make concrete: the mixture hardens when it dries.
Webster's New World
Concrete.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
A substance that hardens to act as an adhesive; glue.
American Heritage
Anything that joins together or unites; bond.
Webster's New World
verb
cemented, cementing, cements
To join or unite with or as with cement.
Webster's New World
To cover with cement.
Webster's New World
To become cemented.
American Heritage
To establish firmly or make stronger.
To cement a friendship.
Webster's New World
idiom
in cement
- Firmly settled or determined; unalterable:
The administration's position on taxes was set in cement despite the unfavorable public response.
American Heritage
Other Word Forms of Cement
Noun
Singular:
cement
Plural:
cementsIdioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cement
- in cement
Origin of Cement
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Middle English from Old French ciment from Latin caementum rough-cut stone, rubble used in making concrete from caedere to cut kaə-id- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Old French ciment, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedo (“I cut, hew”).
From Wiktionary
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